Sisters of the Soil - West Virginia Land Girls on the World War II Farm Front
Publisher: McClain Printing Company
Published: 2017-01-01
Place of publication: Parsons, West Virginia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780870128790
Copyright date: 2017
First sentence: After the U.S. entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and Food Administrator Herbert Hoover mobilized the country in a voluntary campaign to produce and conserve food with the slogan “Food Will Win the War.” Labor scarcity and a looming food shortage called for the unconventional and homemakers signed food pledge cards. They promised to take part in meatless and wheatless meals for a total of nine meals a week and to buy only “victory bread.” Victory flour was made of varying combinations of wheat, corn, barley, oat, rye, potato, and rice flours. Women planted war gardens and enlisted in canning armies. Processing kitchens with canneries were opened in large cities in West Virginia, and in smaller communities, demonstrations in canning and preserving fruits and vegetables were offered in schools.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Sisters of the Soil; title: War Gardens : "Food will win the war"; title: Victory Gardens : "Backyard War"; title: Eleanor Roosevelt : "Woman Land Army"; title: "City-bred Farmerettes" join the Land Army; title: "Strictly city" pioneers harvest war crops; title: West Virginia girls "Pitch in and help"; title: Advance Guard : Cabell County coeds -; title: The camp cook and her land girls; title: Love, G.I. Jean : Letters from camp; title: Hazel Cole and the Grafton girls; title: Peach thinners and cherry pickers; title: 100 acres of dill : Morgantown gang; title: Camp Elyria : End O'Way farm; title: Camp Markley : Victory farm volunteers; title: Camp Huron : Gillmore Manor; title: Gillmore Manor : Big sisters; title: Camp Mil-Bur : Bean brigade; title: Tobacco strippers and snap-bean pickers; title: Farmerettes flock home; title: In memory of Sisters